New Orleans Times-Picayune
By Matt Scallan
October 26, 2009

“Proposed cap and trade laws to stem the production of greenhouse gases will have an outsized effect on industrial manufacturers in the River Parishes, economist Loren Scott told an economic development forum on Monday.

Scott, a former LSU economics professor and founder of Loren C. Scott and Associates, told the gathering of the Regional Economic Development Initiative in LaPlace, that ‘job-killing’ proposals, such as tax increases, universal health care and laws that penalize producers of carbon dioxide will discourage industrial investment in the U.S.

‘I’ve been an economist for 40 years, and I have never seen so many job-killing, anti-growth policies coming out of Washington like we’re seeing right now,’ he said…”

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